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Greetings!

On December 28, a baby was dedicated at Wilmore Free Methodist Church. Pastor Darryl Diddle invited all of the children in the congregation to join the family at the front of the sanctuary for the ceremony. When it was time for the prayer of dedication, he invited the children to stand and place their hands on him or on a family member so that they could participate in the prayers for the baby.

As I watched, I imagined Simeon or Anna inviting the children in the temple to pray with them for the baby Jesus. Knowing Jesus, I believe he would have welcomed that!

Simeon prayed, “For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all nations…” (Luke 2:30–31). Indeed, Jesus Christ is the only source of salvation and the one and only hope of the nations.

By now, we are sure everyone is aware of the recent military action — and perhaps the ongoing threats — in our region. Our first message on Saturday morning came from one of our leaders in Caracas, just as the operation was taking place. It was a request for prayer.

That is what we are inviting you into today: participatory prayer with our brothers and sisters in Venezuela and beyond. As they fast and pray for their nation, let us place one hand on their shoulder and the other in Jesus’ living, nail-scarred hand, and pray with them for peace. True, everlasting peace and salvation will come only through Him.

Thank you and blessings,

Ricardo & Beth Gomez

This week we received an email from someone that we know and trust within the FM community. We clicked to open it and then thought again. When we reached out to him we learned that he had not sent it.

We tell you this because we don't know if by clicking, we opened ourselves up to a similar hack. Just in case, we want to let you know that we do not send out messages from docusign. If you get one from Ricardo, DO NOT OPEN IT. Please forward it to verify@docusign.com and then report it as spam. Also reach out to us so that we can do whatever we need to do to re-secure our accounts. Thank you.

Hopefully you won't need this information but...as they say....an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!